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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The St. Petersburg Publishing House.
2. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?
(a) He dies of a heart ailment.
(b) He slips a disc.
(c) He dies from lung cancer.
(d) He ends up with scoliosis.
3. It is unusual for aristocrats in Russian to be hanged, and as a child, what does Nabokov call the trail through the woods on the estate where a previous owner had been hanged?
(a) The "Hanging Rope."
(b) The "walk of the Hanged One."
(c) The "Path of the Hanged."
(d) The "Road to a Hanging."
4. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(b) Playing in the yard on the estate.
(c) Being fed by his nanny.
(d) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,
5. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?
(a) A large estate in Moscow.
(b) Several summer cottages on the Baltic Sea.
(c) Several large estates south of St. Petersburg.
(d) A large estate in St. Petersburg.
Short Answer Questions
1. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?
2. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
3. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"
4. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?
5. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?
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